Facts: The Sockeye Salmon

Quick facts about this anadromous Pacific salmon! The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, blueback salmon. redfish, summer sockeye). Sockeye salmon facts!

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Music: When We Found The Horizon
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[chisaquaticvibe]

Salmon leader: It's every salmon for himself! All the other salmon: It's every salmon for himself!

[jamesryder]

Loved the vid, homegirl! The only fish I know to grow a red flannel.

[paulgirtu]

In a few of the vids and documentaries I've watched, I've heard that supposedly smolts have their own little territories and gradually push eachother away from their territories, ultimately into the oceans. Those who remain in their territories in the streams and don't die don't have access to the krill in the ocean so they don't grow as large as regular salmon. However, they still supposedly reach maturity and turn into a special kind of adult salmon that, during mating season, will use it's small size to trick the salmons that came back from the ocean into thinking it's a regular small fish, will sneak up on the females and release it's gametes and hope that the eggs will be fertilised by their sperm and not the regular salmon's. Idk what happens to the female mini-salmons though. I don't even know if this is true.

Something that I seem to hear all the time in documentaries though, is "most salmon die". Then what happens to those that survive it?

[enthusiast]

Great video... helped me identify what I now think is a sockeye salmon I saw fly out of the water several times, reddish in color, going up the river, so perhaps a male to breed... thank you!

[mikedowswell]

It's extraordinary how bright red the flannel is.

[ranahassannasir]

Love wildlife Love humanity respect for you Sister

[kia-a-ko]

Me and my father are arguing about this for a year now
Is sockeye salmon always red?

[limebulls]

How do they die if fished? Suffocation?

[suegray]

Gonna try them got some the first time

[indyreno]

Salmonines are divided into two tribes Salmonini (which occurs in both Europe and Eastern North America) and Oncorhynchini (which exclusively occurs in Asia and Western North America), we can look below:
Subfamily: Salmoninae (Salmon, Trout, Char, Taimen, and Lenoks)
* Tribe: Salmonini (Char and Atlantic Trout and Salmon)
** Genus: Salmo (Atlantic Trout and Salmon)
** Genus: Pseudohucho (Brook Trout, Lake Trout, Bull Trout, and Dolly Varden Trout)
** Genus: Salvelinus (True Char)
** Genus: Salvethymus (Long-Finned Char)
* Tribe: Oncorhynchini (Lenoks, Taimen, and Pacific Trout and Salmon)
** Genus: Brachymystax (Lenoks)
** Genus: Parahucho (Sakhalin Taimen)
** Genus: Hucho (True Taimen)
** Genus: Oncorhynchus (Pacific Trout and Salmon)

[moltdisciple]

Literally here by wondering why my food is so delicious

[ramadguy]

Why could they just live in the fresh water ?

[jonathanodawKins]

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